Name of the function: Get-LargestFile
The Input parameters are ServerName and Drive.
Function call
PS:\>Get-LargestFile -server HQDB001-drive e
In this case HQDB001[ServerName] and E[Drive]
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Code:-
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Function Get-LargestFile
{
Param([String]$server,[char]$drive)
Get-ChildItem \\$server\$drive$ -recurse -force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-object Name,DirectoryName, @{Label=’Size’;Expression={($_.Length/1GB).ToString(‘F04′)}} | Sort Size -descending | select -First 10
}
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Thank you very much for this function. I have found that the (‘F04′) needs to be entered as (‘F04’) for this function to work properly.
Somehow my identified correction has gotten transposed from single quotes to what you see in my original post . The F04 should be single quoted.